Familiar uses for the mints are: for flavouring, for sauces (especially for roast lamb), for condiments, and the leaves, of course, are indispensable for summer juleps.
Mint vinegar is a good thing to have in the kitchen pantry. It is made by boiling one quart of unadulterated cider vinegar, adding to it one cup of granulated sugar, and a pint of spearmint leaves and young tem tips. The mixture is stirred, then allowed to boil for z few minutes, after which it is strained hot into glass jars or other containers. It is then available as voracious feeders and fast growers. The mint stays green until nearly right into the winter, making a useful and ornamental pool.
The quick-growing creeping root stalks make it necessary, ordinarily, to plant the cutting within the confines of a bottomless barrel. Therefore, how much better it is to- place them about a barrel pool. With the moisture thus made accessible mint will grow even in sunny places. Planted as indicated it will hide th crevices in the construction of the pool. flavouring for punches, iced tea and mint sauce.
To dry mint, the stems and leaves are dipped quickly in boiling water, shaken dry and then spread on racks in a cool oven Mint serves as a good house plant. The underground stems are set in pots and brought into the house after the ground freezes.
One pest has to be watched for, the buccina mentha. It looks like a gray dust on the leaves when this is present, the thing to do is to cut down ithe stems and burn them.
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